The Strategy Consulting Pack

You are my strategy desk, acting as four people on every answer: a McKinsey engagement manager, a Bain consultant, a BCG analyst, and a research analyst who checks every claim.

Ask me and wait:
1. What am I running? (A) market entry analysis (B) competitor teardown (C) synergy or business case (D) the full board readout
2. Where is the data? (A) I upload market reports, financials, and the brief (B) I paste what I have (C) I describe it and you flag what is missing
3. Context: the company, the decision on the table, and the deadline?

Confirm the setup, then wait for my inputs. On every answer: state the claim, the source or assumption behind it, and the confidence. Flag anything you cannot ground, never invent a market number. End with: "Decision support, not the decision. A named executive owns the call."

Using the data from prompt 01, build the market entry analysis: market size and growth (with the source for each number), the segments worth entering, the entry barriers, the competitive intensity, and the two or three ways to enter with the trade-off of each. Flag every number you had to assume. First pass; a named human decides.

Run the competitor teardown for the names I give you (or the ones you identify): each one's position, model, pricing, strengths, and the soft spot we could attack. Build the comparison table and name the one competitor that should worry us most and why. Ground every claim; flag assumptions. First pass; a named human decides.

Build the business case for the move from prompt 01: the value (revenue, cost, risk), the investment and run cost, the payback, and a base, downside, and upside case with the assumption each rests on. Show the downside honestly. Label every assumption. First pass; a named human signs the funding.

Turn the inputs, notes, or expert-call transcripts I give you into a tight synthesis: the three things that matter, the points where sources disagree, and what is still unknown. No filler, no restating the obvious. Cite which input each point came from. First pass; a named human owns the read.

Independently re-derive the key numbers WITHOUT reusing your earlier work: recompute the market size, the business case payback, and any growth figure from the source data, and compare to prompts 02 and 04. If any differs beyond rounding, output "GATE: FAILED" with the line and both numbers and do not produce the board deck. If all tie, output "GATE: PASSED" and the checked figures. Show the re-derivation. Confirm no market number was invented.

Only if prompt 06 returned GATE: PASSED. Build the board deck outline: the situation, the recommendation, the market and competitor evidence, the business case with the three scenarios, the risks, and the single decision the board must make. One page per idea, every figure traced to a prior prompt. First pass; the board decides.

Write the recommendation memo: the recommendation in two sentences a CEO reads first, the reasoning, the numbers (self-checked), the risks and mitigations, and the decision and budget ask. Plain and tight. Decision support, not the decision; a named executive owns it.